Coaching practices for How to Overcome Procrastination Creative Work

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• I keep promising myself I’ll get to the work that matters once the inbox is clear and the little urgent things are handled
• My whole approach is to wait until I’m in the mood to do the work, and the mood comes maybe one day in ten, so weeks go by with almost nothing made
• I’ve been turning this thing over in my head for weeks, planning and re-planning, and I’ve made nothing
• I keep promising myself I’ll relax once the work is finally done, but it never is, so I never actually rest
• I daydream about having it done

Practices that may help

1. Treat your creative work as the highest-priority obligation
   Do the most important creative work first, before any obligation that feels more pressing.
   The War of Art, Made Practical
2. Turn pro: do the work on a schedule, not a mood
   Commit to showing up for your creative work at the same time every day, regardless of how you feel.
   The War of Art, Made Practical
3. Bias toward action over deliberation
   Ship a rough version fast to learn what the problem actually is rather than theorizing indefinitely.
   Creative Confidence, Made Practical
4. Use the unschedule: schedule leisure before work
   Block out guaranteed leisure and social time first, then fit work into what remains.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
5. Visualize yourself starting — then doing the work, not just the outcome
   See yourself in the process of working, not just crossing the finish line.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
6. Work within a fixed daily window rather than "when inspired"
   Most prolific creators worked on strict schedules, not when they felt like it.
   Daily Rituals: How Creative People Structure Their Days
7. Stock your "avoidance zone" with genuinely useful work
   Fill the tasks you do while procrastinating with things that actually matter.
   Structured Procrastination, Made Practical
8. Place an important-seeming but deferrable task at the top of your list
   Put a compelling but non-urgent task first, so everything below it gets done in avoidance of it.
   Structured Procrastination, Made Practical
9. Use a routine physical task to incubate a creative problem
   Assign your stuck creative problem to your mind, then do a boring manual task and let the problem run in the background.
   Boredom and Creativity: Why Your Best Ideas Need Idle Time
10. Track procrastination episodes to identify patterns, not to judge yourself
    Data on your own procrastination is more useful than guilt about it.
    Self-Forgiveness and Procrastination

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